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Antonio Thonis is top user and couldn't do without nine connections
At nine connections our users mean a lot to us. They help us in our private beta with their clicking behavior and with their valuable feedback. Thanks to their input we are able to make our application a little bit better every day. Before we launch the public beta of our new and improved app we would like to put some users in the spotlight. We reveal to you this month's top user: Antonio Thonis! Antonio Thonis/ @antoniothonisGraduated Msc. Buss. Adm. @VUamsterdam - Thesis on Innovation in Organizations - Digital...
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Flipboard is now even more magazine-like - and that's a good thing
Flipboard, the beautiful app for presenting content from social networks, released a new update last week. In addition to a French-language version, they launched cover stories for iPad, making them...
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Pinterest gains momentum: the need for content curation
Pinterest has the most social media hype since the launch of Google+. It's the fastest-growing independent site in U.S. history, with nearly 12 million active users per month. The members spend more...
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Frictionless sharing is the future of sharing
Picture: Ash Choudhury (Nokia), Trevor Johnson (Facebook), Allister Frost (Microsoft), Mark Jones (Reuters) and moderator Gordon MacMillan. © Heleen van Lier 850 million people are on Facebook, 100...
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People are their own news channel, but can they be trusted?
Thanks to social media, everyone has their own news channel. Instead of merely consuming, a lot of people now make contributions to the information available on the internet. Because of it much more...
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Social Media Week London: Reporting via social media has become an instinct
Social media has had a major impact on journalism. Suddenly, thanks to Twitter, everyone is a reporter for disasters, accidents or other events and many people consume most of their news through social...
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Social Media Week
Consuming news, finding a job, making art and selling a product: social media influences all these things. In twelve cities around the world, thousands of people are talking about these developments during Social Media Week. Nine Connections is there to follow the trends in social media and journalism. Relevant In Hamburg, Hong Kong, London, Miami, New York, Paris, San Francisco, São Paulo, Singapore, Tokyo, Toronto and Washington DC this week more than 1000 events are devoted to developments in the field of social...
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Twitter buys Summify – and why it’s not their best idea
On January 19, Twitter announced the purchase of aggregation app Summify, which gives a summary of your social news feeds. We want to congratulate the hardworking team in Vancouver and share some thoughts on this. Immediately after the announcement, Twitter pulled the plug from Summify as a stand-alone service. Like it did with Twitter Search and Tweetie, Twitter now includes Summify’s functionality in the core Twitter website. Incorporating the functionality of an aggregation tool is in line with other recent Twitter...
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Google embraces old media models with Google Currents
Google wants to have a share in the success of newsreaders like Flipboard and Zite and launched a beta version of a new app for smartphones and tablets in the U.S.: Google Currents. Newsreader apps like Flipboard, Zite, and Feedly are extremely popular among smartphone and tablet users so this is understandable (Flipboard alone is installed on 10 percent of all iPads). But the strange thing is that Google, despite all their resources and knowledge, failed to develop an intelligent, social newsreader; they instead...
